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  "title": "Revenue Forecasting and Analysis",
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  "summary": "Revenue Forecasting and Analysis Training Program Target Audience Government officials working in ministries of finance or in revenue administrations who are charged with conducting revenue forecasts and/or assessing the revenue or distributional impact of tax policy changes.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-23",
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      "heading": "Program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.214\n- Location: Course conducted online New location\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Target Audience: Government officials working in ministries of finance or in revenue administrations who are charged with conducting revenue forecasts and/or assessing the revenue or distributional impact of tax policy changes."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and technical prerequisites",
      "content": "- Educational background: degree in economics or tax accountancy (ideally with some background in econometrics).\n- Skills: basic to intermediate understanding of tax policy; proficiency in Microsoft Excel.\n- Technical requirements: access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and emphasis",
      "content": "- Presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department.\n- Focus: technical and institutional aspects of revenue forecasting and tax policy analysis.\n- Coverage: quantitative methods required to forecast and evaluate the revenue implications of changes in major taxes, namely:\n  - personal income taxes,\n  - corporate income taxes,\n  - value added taxes,\n  - excise taxes,\n  - international trade taxes.\n- Institutional focus: necessity of establishing a strong institutional framework to support the revenue forecasting process.\n- Pedagogy: builds on both conceptual and practical approaches and employs hands-on activities to support learning.\n- Practical components: quizzes and quantitative exercises with real fiscal data."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (upon completion)",
      "content": "- Describe the role of revenue forecasting in the budget-making process.\n- Identify good practices relating to the institutional framework that supports the revenue forecasting process.\n- Identify data requirements for each method of revenue forecasting.\n- Apply macro-based models to forecast tax revenue.\n- Apply input-output models and micro-simulation techniques to analyze the revenue and distributional implications from indirect and direct taxes.\n- Recognize the strengths and limitations of different models."
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    "Session No.: OL 24.214",
    "Location: Course conducted online New location",
    "Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Target Audience: Government officials working in ministries of finance or in revenue administrations who are charged with conducting revenue forecasts and/or assessing the revenue or distributional impact of tax policy changes.",
    "Educational background: degree in economics or tax accountancy (ideally with some background in econometrics).",
    "Skills: basic to intermediate understanding of tax policy; proficiency in Microsoft Excel.",
    "Technical requirements: access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
    "Presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department.",
    "Focus: technical and institutional aspects of revenue forecasting and tax policy analysis.",
    "Coverage: quantitative methods required to forecast and evaluate the revenue implications of changes in major taxes, namely:",
    "Institutional focus: necessity of establishing a strong institutional framework to support the revenue forecasting process.",
    "Pedagogy: builds on both conceptual and practical approaches and employs hands-on activities to support learning.",
    "Practical components: quizzes and quantitative exercises with real fiscal data.",
    "Describe the role of revenue forecasting in the budget-making process.",
    "Identify good practices relating to the institutional framework that supports the revenue forecasting process.",
    "Identify data requirements for each method of revenue forecasting.",
    "Apply macro-based models to forecast tax revenue.",
    "Apply input-output models and micro-simulation techniques to analyze the revenue and distributional implications from indirect and direct taxes.",
    "Recognize the strengths and limitations of different models."
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